remorseful - Story 116707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the office felt muted, reflecting the grayness that had settled over Angela’s mood. She'd joked about his old camp photo during a presentation, revealing a silly picture of John for a laugh, not realizing how much the moment meant to him. Now John barely spoke to her.

She avoided the cafeteria, the thought of facing him too daunting. She felt sick with the knowledge that she'd wounded his feelings. The world felt out of kilter.

She should have kept her mouth shut. The truth was, she found the photo endearing, but her actions had made things impossible.

Emotion: remorseful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.57 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.09

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion remorseful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 remorseful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the remorseful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the remorseful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.656
`L`	0.580
`悔`	0.463
`remorse`	0.416
`been`	0.398

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.444
`(!)`	-0.309
`имеется`	-0.289
`oldukça`	-0.287
`😍`	-0.285